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WhatsApp was founded in February 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo! A month earlier, after Koum purchased an iPhone, he and Acton decided to create an app for the App Store. The idea started off as an app that would display statuses in a phone's Contacts menu, showing if a person was at work or on a call.
Apr 30, 2018 · 0:49. SAN FRANCISCO — Jan Koum, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp, says he's leaving Facebook. "It is time for me to move on," Koum wrote in a Facebook post of his decision to ...
Other articles where Jan Koum is discussed: WhatsApp: …2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum. Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who had just begun attending classes at San Jose State University, and Acton, a Stanford-educated programmer, met while Acton was working for Internet pioneer Yahoo! in 1997. Koum was soon offered a job with the Mountain View, California-based company,…
0 Followers, 200 Following, 19 Posts - Jan Koum (@jkoum) on Instagram: "⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For close friends (and enemies) only."
Jan Koum (* 24. Februar 1976 in Kiew) ist ein ukrainisch - US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und einer der Gründer von WhatsApp, einem bekannten Messaging-Dienst für Mobiltelefone. Nachdem im Februar 2014 das Unternehmen von Facebook gekauft wurde, wechselte er in den Facebook-Verwaltungsrat. [1] Am 30. April 2018 verabschiedete er sich von Facebook.
Jan 19, 2018 · Jan Koum, co-founder and CEO of Facebook ’s WhatsApp messaging service, says the idea for the company he co-founded with Brian Acton in 2009 came about so he could stop missing calls on his new ...
En 2014, Jan Koum intègre le conseil d'administration de Facebook à la suite du rachat de Whatsapp par Facebook pour 19.3 milliards de dollars [4]. Cette vente lui permet, la même année, d'entrer dans la liste du magazine Forbes des 400 plus riches Américains, en 62 e position, avec une fortune estimée à plus de 7,5 milliards de dollars [5].
